"The book seeks to address the need for institutional investors to address failing asset allocation strategies by allocating a larger proportion of assets to private market structures. As returns from bonds and stocks have been disappointing and the stock market volatile private assets are of increasing interest to pension managers and other large asset allocators. The book will focus on private equity, private debt and private real assets and will cover debates about correlation with other asset classes, returns, risks, the "endowment model", construction and deployment of an allocation, hedging (or the lack thereof) and illiquidity. All of this information is useful to large asset managers, pension funds in particular, that struggle to find a single authoritative source that deals with this type of asset"-- Provided by publisher.